+ f5 n, y6 [" o- G/ S# E 佩斯是应中央军委委员、中国人民解放军总参谋长梁光烈的邀请，于22日开始对中国为期4天的正式访问。中央军委副主席郭伯雄，中央军委副主席、国务委员兼国防部长曹刚川22日分别会见了佩斯。梁光烈与佩斯举行了会谈。9 R( G6 Q" E5 f2 i- q- A
8 \. w7 o% F" r/ F) M# n! ?. ~ 佩斯说，他们讨论了通过其他途径增进两军间的信任，比如，互相观摩军事演习，共同参加人道主义救援，增加军官交流等。 0 R1 B( |/ [5 k$ A9 ~; m' P6 b' i + e/ q: O- B# u: ]2 p" \ 佩斯一行是今年访华的第一个美国高级军事代表团，也是佩斯2005年就任美军参联会主席以来首次访华。/ l& Z" |- l. H" L1 N
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U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible* \( q3 m8 A* A. n+ q
0 ~, G7 K7 N% i, Z9 X: ]BEIJING — China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a “hotline” for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday.4 T5 y6 c* U/ A i- ]9 ]( E
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However, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he received no new information in meetings with Chinese military chiefs about Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that raised concern in Washington. He said he continued to press China's generals for more transparency about the aims of their military buildup.' r( H: x0 e, N; l. m; \8 f; L
# I! f {2 l* D3 }“I used the example of the anti-satellite test as how sometimes the international community can be confused, because it was a surprise that China did that, and it wasn't clear what their intent was,” Gen. Pace said. 9 i5 D: f! T8 l# s( A$ O0 o& A; L& ?+ A2 [
Gen. Pace said he immediately agreed to study the proposals put forward Friday by Gen. Liang Guanglie, chief of the PLA's General Staff Department. Liang's move suggested a departure from the skepticism with which the highly secretive People's Liberation Army has long regarded co-operation with the U.S. military. 2 Q1 \8 u* e" U/ J; H: w, b7 w& o 6 y" d5 {6 l+ T u“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.1 a, I1 _( V/ D5 g, D+ ~ I
2 S1 y, Z# H; }% p/ FGen. Liang's proposals included sending Chinese cadets to the Army academy at West Point as well as participating in joint exercises and humanitarian and relief-at-sea operations “that might be able to build trust and confidence amongst our forces.” ) O1 ~( {+ }: f( o # p# j# f2 R3 hMilitary exchanges were largely suspended following a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001. The Chinese pilot was killed and the U.S. crew held captive after making an emergency landing at a Chinese air base. # z; f! F) Q# ~+ r; ~# U; O, f' H6 J" B2 v$ I; s: \- a! ` G
During that crisis, communication between the sides was spotty and at times non-existent, largely because Washington had no direct channel of communications with the Chinese leadership.$ b4 Q1 \* z* k% n# T6 l X9 k
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Gen. Pace said the sides agreed to keep discussing setting up a “hotline” between either military or civilian leaders that would help ease any future friction.( k0 `0 J0 \* y# x. H
, z0 ~6 p! U/ K+ F3 r6 G0 C2 d) X“The Chinese military understands as well as I do that the opportunity to pick up the phone and talk to somebody you know and smooth out misunderstandings quickly is a very important part of relations between two countries,” Gen. Pace said.% s/ Z& t' u$ Q& }' w" @0 X
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Deep mistrust remains, however, particularly over Washington's close military ties with Japan and commitment to help ensure the defence of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own territory and which it has threatened to use force to recover. 3 V- B m3 j4 d5 m8 s* g ]& f& r3 K/ W) p
China has complained about U.S. plans to sell a batch of more than 400 missiles to Taiwan, but Gen. Pace said he had no details and didn't indicate whether the deal was mentioned in discussions. . V) D a8 t/ U9 `- |! P 8 M5 ^( `& h4 {/ |0 JAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.” $ ?% W# j6 Q4 e% f* ^" S& O. c, L+ [0 I+ ~" U( o7 h4 B
The general didn't say how the Chinese officers responded to his calls for more transparency. China raised its military budget by 17.8 per cent this year to about $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. * o, Z$ b/ ~. S: N$ v {+ _ { ( ]5 [0 j t _" YThe spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces. 2 |/ l+ p( ] `" g6 B' i% `. ]# V : i W$ R9 h, o/ C* ~( A6 M & S7 |: C- B: f% r " U. ~: C2 E/ }+ ^6 Z * E6 A5 G( |2 a5 x* bChairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace inspects the guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Beijing March 22, 2007.
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